XVI Ministerial Forum for Development: space to discuss the power of resilience and how to overcome development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

THAT?:

He XVI Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will discuss how the region can advance and protect social gains in the context of more frequent and intense shocks.

This meeting builds on discussions initiated at the 13th Ministerial Forum in Antigua and Barbuda in 2021, which discussed disasters and social protection systems in the context of protracted crises.

The Forum is co-organized and sponsored by the Government of Barbados with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

Within the framework of the Forum, the Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC, will be held.

WHEN?: October 30 – November 1, 2024.

WHERE?: Wyndham Grand Barbados, Sam Lord’s Castle.

BACKGROUND:

The Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was held for the first time in 2007 to provide ministers and other decision-makers with a space to discuss experiences in public policies around human and social development, and to identify responses to the new challenges of the region. Since 2015, the Forum has been organized in coordination with the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The main theme of the Fourth Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development, organized virtually in 2021 by ECLAC, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and UNDP, was “Disasters and inequality in a protracted crisis: towards universal social protection systems, integral, resilient and sustainable in Latin America and the Caribbean”.

Key links

Forum website: https://www.undp.org/es/latin-america/forodesarrollolac.

Official program: LINK TO THE AGENDA.

Social networks

Follow us at the 2024 Ministerial Forum using the hashtags:

#MinisterialForum2024 #MinisterialForum2024

Press accreditation

Please note that media accreditation closes on Tuesday, October 29, 2024.

Media representatives, media delegates, including official journalists and photographers, must register here.

Media are invited to cover:

• October 30 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Welcome Reception at Wyndham Resort Barbados (in person)
• October 31 | 9:00 am – 11:30 am – Opening Ceremony at Wyndham Resort Barbados (in person / virtual)
• Media is asked to be in place at 8:30 a.m.
• November 1 | 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Adoption of the Bridgetown Declaration (in person or virtual)

The Opening Ceremony and side events will be broadcast live on: https://www.youtube.com/@PNUDLAC.

Photos, videos and supporting material will be available.

For more information and media inquiries, please contact:

UNDP: Vanessa Hidalgo, Regional Communications Advisor – [email protected] +1 6463389462.

Government of Barbados: Yvette Walcott-Dennis, Ministry of People Empowerment and Senior Affairs – [email protected].

ECLAC: [email protected]; telephone: (56) 22210 2040.